Improvement in ears of  wooden buckets



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Letters Patent No. 96,571, dated N ocember 9, 1869; anteflatecl No'cember 1, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN EARS OF WOODEN BUCKETS.

The Scheduler referred to :in these Letters Patent and making part of the same. l

To all whomt't may concern .a

Beit known that I, LEONARD ASA FLEMING, of the city, county, and State of N ew York, have invented new'and useful Improvements. in the-Manufacture of Wooden Vessels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable those skilled in the art to make and-use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specifica tion, in which- Figure 1 is a cross-section through the line :v x, fig.- 3, of a bucket constructed from a scroll of wood.

Figure 2 is a cross-section of a spiral scroll saWn4 from the wood, and from which the vessel is Inade.

Figure 3 is a side view of a bucket, complete.

Figure 4 is a cross-section of my improved earplate before the same is attened.

Figure 5 is a similar view of the ear when flattened within the recess.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists in the construction of bailears for wooden vessels, and their application to such vessels.

The invention is applicable to all wooden vessels, but is more especially designed to be used upon those made from a continuous' scroll, out from a block of wood, of proper' length, as will be hereinafter more fully described.,

lhe spiral scroll, as shown at B, iig. 2,`is cut by the ordinary belt-saw, well known to the art of scrollsawing.

The taper for employing hoops, in the construction of the vessel, is given by `resting the base of the block from which the scroll is being sawn upon any suitable incline, in juxtaposition to the edge of the saw.

Portions of `the scroll are taken to form a vessel,

and in'taking such portions, I find it best, in prac- -to the bucket, are affixed within circular recesses in the side oi' the vessel, by forming the said plate in a concave disk, through which the bail passes, as shown at. fig. 4.

Each concave disk, when set in its recess, fits therein, .with easy contact of its edges; but when driven flat, by lneans'of a proper tool, the edges of the disk are expanded, and forced into the sides of the recess,

as shown at tig. 5, whereby they are held rmly, and

arenot liable to get loose, as is the case when the bail-ears are nailed on to the exterior of' the vessel, in the common manner.

A block ol' wood, when sawn in a continuous scroll,

in the manner shown, will supply the sides of severall sized vessels.

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Attaching the bail to wooden vessels by means of disks b, expanded within recesses in the wood, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described. The above specification of my invention signed by l me, this 24th day of February, 1868.

' 1 LEONARD ASA FLEMING.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 

